This document discusses several ethical issues that companies may face when conducting international business, including employment practices, human rights, environmental pollution, corruption, moral obligations, ethical dilemmas, unethical behavior, decision making processes, organizational culture, unrealistic performance expectations, leadership, and societal culture. It also provides an overview of utilitarian and Kantian ethics as well as rights theories as approaches to addressing ethics.
2. Ethical Issues in International Business
• Employment Practices
Fuente: http://jaymarinsurance.com/commercial-insurance/employment-practices-liability/
5. Corruption and it´s effect in the environment
Fuente: https://www.coe.int/en/web/corruption/-/preliminary-assessment-of-the-independence-and-effectiveness-
of-anti-corruption-bodies-in-the-eastern-partnership-region
6. MORAL OBLIGATIONS
• Moral obligations concern our duty- our actions
• Moral values concern things we judge to be morally good,
bad, praiseworthy, or blameworthy – character or motives.
• Actions are morally right or wrong
• Persons are morally good or bad
17. • Utilitarian and Kantian Ethics
• Utilitarian approaches to ethics
• Philosophers David Hume, Jeremy Bentham, and John Stuart Mill
• Actions are desirable if they lead to the best possible balance of good consequences over
bad consequences
• Best decisions are those that produce the greatest good for the greatest number of people
• Drawbacks
• Difficult to measure benefits, costs, and risks of an action
• It fails to consider justice
